After the type was brought to Greenwich, it was totally de- " stroyed, except enough to print each of the company's names, which "the veterans kept for a long time in memory of their exploit." One might readily suppose this latest tidbit of what has currency as history, was written in China or Timbuctoo ; but the curious reader may find it in an elegant and e.\pensive History of Fairfield C<mnly, Connecticut, compiled under the supervision of D. Hamilton Hurd, and published by J. W Lewis & Co., Philadelphia, it 18.S1. It occupies a portion of page 378 of that handsomely printed volume, and afl'urds a tine example of the character of what is written, concerning New Euglundei-s and their character and doings, when the jjen of the writer and the patronage of tbe publisher are within that pretentious portion of the Union.

ing its first collection of plunder and its three prisoners (the latter of whom, as the practise then was among that new-formed power, having been provided, meanwhile, with neither food nor shelter) had halted, until the following Monday, the twenty-seventh of November. Its progress through Connecticut apj)ears to have been attended with the highest popular approval ; many joined it, " the whole making a " very grand procession ;" and, on Tuesday, the twenty-eighth of November, amidst the salutes of two cannon and the cheers of the populace, it re-entered New Haven. The procession moved through nearly every street in the Town, stopping at every corner, in order that the crowds might gaze on the victims and jeer at and insult them ; and, after having quartered the latter, at their own expense, at one of the Taverns, the successful banditti, sustained by what there was of the ignorance and lawlessness of the New Haven of that period, spent the remainder of the day in "festivity and innocent mirth.'"